Congratulations Mike. This is very good work and will improve the project as a whole. This is the way to run Enterprise Applications in the 2020s.
On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 12:20 PM Michael Vorburger <m...@vorburger.ch> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm happy to share that https://www.fineract.dev now always automatically > updates itself from the very latest source code available on the develop > branch of Fineract! (I actually used to manually update it before.) > > New deployments take about 15’ after any of our great committer merges > Pull Requests from you - our contributors. Something that is pretty cool is > that on https://demo.fineract.dev/fineract-provider/actuator/info anyone > can now actually see the exact Git commit revision that is currently > running (this is based on FINERACT-883 > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FINERACT-883>). > > If you are curious about some of the technical details involved here > behind the scenes, > http://blog2.vorburger.ch/2020/05/fineractdev-cicd-from-github-to-google.html > may interest you. You can see one part of what my blog post describes in > live action on https://github.com/apache/fineract/actions - note the new > "Deploy to https://www.fineract.dev"; workflow, driven by > https://github.com/apache/fineract/blob/develop/.github/workflows/fineract.dev.yaml > . > > Something perhaps worth pointing out here is that this is based on modern > cloud native CI/CD... to users, it's made to look like the "server" never > "stops". Incoming API HTTP traffic is transparently switched over from old > to new runtimes. So as you use fineract.dev, it's now entirely possible > that, following the merge of a Pull Request, in one instant you hit "old" > code, but your next API request hits "new" code that just got deployed! > Cool, right? > > I'm hoping this makes Fineract.dev even more useful to the community, and > will serve both as a showcase for the project, as well as be of value e.g. > for your QA. (Should you have an interest in a non-demo more stable hosted > instance of Apache Fineract, please reach out to me privately - I'm > interested in learning more about the need and expectations in this space.) > > Stay safe & keep hacking and contributing! > > Best, > M. > _______________________ > Michael Vorburger > http://www.vorburger.ch >
